How to Fix America: A Guide for the Next First 100 Days (www.motherjones.com) TMC

Valerie Plame Wilson, The Wire's David Simon, and 18 other experts on what the next president can do to clean house—pronto.

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As Vets Take to the Streets to Protest the War, McCain Snubs IVAW at the RNC | War on Iraq | AlterNet (www.alternet.org) TMC

"War hero" McCain voted against healthcare funding for veterans in 2003, '04, '05, '06 and '07. Now veterans are confronting him on his record.

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Only in America Could a Two-Faced Creature Like McCain Attain Such Media Status | Media and Technology | AlterNet (www.alternet.org) TMC

Only in America could a man who has called the mainstream media his "base" run against that very same media.

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Palin Pick Is GOP Hypocrisy at its Best | Reproductive Justice and Gender | AlterNet (www.alternet.org) TMC

Will the media test her on substance or let her play "Ms. Congeniality?" It is up to the public to see through the fact-free diet we're being fed.

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Talking Points Memo | Real Investigation Much Needed (talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

Reed Hundt has more on McCain's apparent obstruction of the trooper-gate probe.

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Talking Points Memo | Nitpicking (talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

There are plenty of issues in the career of Sarah Palin that deserve a hefty amount of scrutiny, so I'm only going to give this one a few seconds.

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Talking Points Memo | We Will Not Be Exploited! (talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

That school out in North Hollywood that John McCain shameless exploited as his convention speech backdrop is calling foul.

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GOP platform: No ethanol mandate | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist (gristmill.grist.org) TMC

Kate Sheppard mentioned it in her tireless coverage of the Republican convention, but it bears highlighting again: The official GOP presidential platform calls for an end to the biofuel mandate.

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Palin's 'energy expertise' | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist (gristmill.grist.org) TMC

Alaska is basically a petrostate -- to the extent oil prices rise, it benefits. Thus politicians in Alaska develop a very sophisticated ability to encourage Alaskan energy exploration and to use the... More

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